Friday, October 31, 2014

Planned Parenthood clearly doesn't care about African-American women

Dear Lord, NBC quotes Planned Parenthood portraying Lena Duham, Grand Dragon of the KKK, as the voice of a generation.

Season three, the most recent season, of Dunham's racist Girls? Only one episode got one million viewers.

She can't even get a million viewers but she's the voice of a generation?

Of whiny White girls, maybe.

Sorry.

I don't feel any sisterhood with any White bitch who applauds Lena.

Lena doesn't believe that a woman of color should be a lead on her show or -- it turns out -- even a character, a regular one, on her show.

No, Lean promised she'd bring on a woman of color in season two -- lied to get people to stop criticizing her. And then she told Terry Gross there would be no woman of color because she can't write those characters.

Well guess what?

If the bitch can't write a character of color, she sure as hell can't speak to women of color.

So a big f**k you to Planned Parenthood which has made it clear that being a star f**ker is more important than being inclusive to all women.

You won't ever reach women of color when you make the modern day Grand Dragon your spokesperson.

Thursday, October 30, 2014. Chaos and violence continue, the bombing of
Falluja's residential neighborhoods (War Crimes) continue, Loveday
Morris explains what 'victory' looks like in Iraq, and much more.

In Monday's snapshot,
we noted the death of Sean P. Neal and the presumed death of Jordan L.
Spears -- both in the latest wave of the Iraq War which has been dubbed
"Inherent Resolve." Tuesday, the Defense Dept issued the following
announcement:

IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Release No: NR-546-14October 28, 2014

DoD Identifies Marine Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the reclassification of a
previously reported death of a Marine in support of Operation Inherent
Resolve.
Cpl. Jordan L. Spears, 21, of Memphis, Indiana, was lost at sea Oct. 1
while conducting flight operations in the North Arabian Gulf. He was
initially classified as a non-global war on terrorism casualty.
Spears was assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron-163, Marine
Aircraft Group 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, I Marine Expeditionary
Force, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California.
For more information, media may contact the I Marine Expeditionary
Force Public Affairs Office at (760) 763-7039 or after hours at (760)
207-5865.

The "reclassification" the release notes means Jordan L. Spears is now
the first US service member to die in Operation Inherent Resolve.

How many more people will be sent to die in the never-ending Iraq War?

Australian commandos set to join the fight in Iraq against Islamic
State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants have hit an unexpected snag –
Baghdad has not yet issued them visas, the Sydney Morning Herald reported on Thursday.

Although
200 special forces troops are in in the Gulf awaiting their deployment,
the Iraqi government’s “excruciating inefficiency” has made them unable
to reach their assignment, according to the daily, citing an
unidentified source.

The forces are sent over with no plan.

Just bomb.

Then bomb some more.

And while the Iraqi government -- safe from the aerial bombings, safe in
the protected Green Zone -- is happy to see the country bombed, already
Iraqis are rejecting it. Not a surprise.

It's not a plan.

It's a shock and, grasp reality, it's an insult to Iraqis.

Foreigners are 'helping' them by bombing their countryside?

In what world is that 'help'?

In the world where countries can't stop lining up at the chance to bomb Iraq.

NewsinEnglish.no reports, "Norway’s government has confirmed plans to send a total of 195
military personnel to Iraq and Afghanistan as a contribution to the
US-led international efforts to combat terrorism. The decision announced
Thursday was critizised by some left-wing politicians, but the
opposition Labour party said it supported the move." Steven Chase (Globe and Mail) reports, "Canadian warplanes are poised to start striking targets in Iraq, with
the government saying bombing of Islamic militant forces should begin
very shortly." Emily Kent Smith (Daily Mail) reports England's gearing up to provide Apache helicopters to Iraq and "If Apaches are sent to Iraq - which are
piloted by the Army Air Corps - it would mark the first British Army
involvement in a conflict role in the country."
For those who've forgotten who else is bombing Iraq, the US Defense Dept helpfully notes, "Among
the coalition nations conducting airstrikes in Iraq are the United
States, France, the United Kingdom, Australia, Belgium, Denmark and the
Netherlands. Coalition nations conducting airstrikes in Syria include
the United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan and
Bahrain."

That's a lot of countries and so many more lining up for their chance to destroy Iraq.

The US Defense Dept boast, "Separately, officials said, U.S. and partner-nation military forces
conducted two airstrikes in Iraq yesterday and today, using attack,
fighter and remotely piloted aircraft against ISIL terrorists. [. . .] In Iraq, an airstrike near Bayji struck a small ISIL unit and destroyed
an ISIL vehicle, and an airstrike west of Ramadi struck an ISIL
checkpoint."

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has been on the defensive recently
about the strategy to take on the Islamic State. American warplanes have
been bombing targets in Iraq and Syria, but militant fighters are still
on the move."We have made it very clear, I have and President Obama has, that this is a long, difficult effort," Hagel said.Difficult,
some critics say, because the U.S. military is not bombing enough
targets and is not deploying any U.S. ground troops in the fight. There
are also critics who say the U.S. does not have effective partners on
the ground and is not training a sufficient number of local troops or
militias.

"This sounds like a Goldilocks approach. We're
looking for a solution that's just right," said Fred Hof, who worked in
the Obama administration on Syria policy.

Greg Miller (Washingon Post) adds, "The magnitude of the ongoing migration suggests that the U.S.-led air
campaign has neither deterred significant numbers of militants from
traveling to the region nor triggered such outrage that even more are
flocking to the fight because of American intervention."

If you're not grasping what a failure US President Barack Obama's 'plan' has been, Xinhua reports, "A total of 255 tribesmen and local policemen were
executed by the militants of the Islamic State (IS) after the group took
them from their villages and towns in Iraq's western province of Anbar,
a provincial security source said on Thursday."

Here's the thing about little boys and their war toys, it stops being a
fun game quickly. They end up like gamblers at black jack, they just
can't walk away.. They're losing but they keep betting because now
they've lost face, now everyone's looking at them. And they know
they're not doing anything different and they're not planning to do
anything different, but if they keep bluffing, surely (they hope) their
luck will change.

Luck is all Barack's hoping for at this point to save his 'plan.'

Al Arabiya News notes, "Islamic state of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants executed 46 people and
besieged 500 families in the Iraqi city of Heet, Al Arabiya News
Channel’s correspondent to Anbar reported on Wednesday." Sameer N. Yacoub and Sinan Salaheddin (AP) add, "Hit was captured by Islamic State militants earlier this month after
heavy clashes with the government security forces and tribal militias." Earlier this month.

When you're losing cities, you aren't making "gains." Even if you
retake them, you are not making "gains." The Pentagon keeps labeling
this and that "Islamic State propaganda" but the Defense Dept isn't
averse to circulating its own propaganda.

But a visit to the Sunni settlement this week laid bare the huge cost
of that victory. The town is now emptied of its 80,000 residents, and
building after building has been destroyed – by air strikes, bombings
and artillery fire.After four months of battles between the Isis
and the Iraqi army, about 10,000 pro-government Shia militiamen were
poured into this area in Babil province for a final push, according to
Hadi al-Amiri, who leads the Iranian-backed Badr Brigade and
co-ordinated the operation.Defeating the militants involved
clearing out all the residents and leaving the town nearly flattened,
underscoring the challenge the Shia-led government faces in areas where
demographics do not work in its favour.

And that's what the Pentagon -- and White House -- insists is a 'success.'

We noted some of today's deaths earlier. Yesterday? Ahmed Rasheed (Reuters) reports:On Wednesday, Islamic State fighters rounded up and executed 35 tribesmen in Hit, a Euphrates town in Anbar, officials said."We
asked the prime minister to urgently arm anti-Islamic State tribal
fighters. We told him each day that passes adds more complication to the
situation in Anbar and the government needs to take immediate actions
on ground," said Sheikh Naeem al-Ga’oud, from the prominent Albu Nimir
tribe. "But speaking honestly all what we got out of the meeting with Abadi was promises."

Rasheed reports on the growing distrust of the new prime minister Haider
al-Abadi. This isn't a surprise. A new prime minister was not a clean
bill. It was a brief chance to demonstrate a new Iraq.

Brief.

Jonathan S. Landay (McClatchy Newspapers) notes, "Yet Baghdad has been hit by a slew of bombings in recent weeks that seem
intended to disrupt Muharram and shatter public confidence in the new
Shiite Muslim-dominated government of Prime Minister Haider al Abadi,
the politician plucked from relative obscurity who the Obama
administration hopes will find a way to bridge the country’s sectarian
divide."

Haider and the White House blew it.

Reuters notes, "The bodies of 150 members of an Iraqi Sunni tribe which fought Islamic State have been found in a mass grave, security officials said on Thursday. Islamic State militants
took the men from their villages to the city of Ramadi and killed them
on Wednesday night and buried them, an official in a police operations
center and another security official told Reuters."

Had the White House and Haider done their job, the 150 deaths could have
been a galvanizing moment, the reason the Sunni tribal sheiks who are
now living in exile in Jordan to throw their support behind Haider.

At some point, is the long promised "political solution" going to be worked on?

As US-led warplanes pound jihadists in Iraq,
prominent Sunni exiles say that empowering their marginalised minority
will be more important than bombs and missiles in defeating the Islamic
State extremist group.

Deadly sectarian tensions
have riven Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein more than a decade ago,
with Sunni anger at the Shiite-led authorities seen as a key factor
behind the rise of IS.

The 'shock and awe' of US war planes was only going to be 'shocking' for
a bit. It's just another layer in the cycle of violence -- the
never-ending cycle of violence in Iraq. The average Iraqi citizen has
had to endure and adjust to a life that no one would consider normal
anywhere else -- car bombings, roadside bombings, grenade attacks, on
and on and on.

“Those words were so powerful, so life-changing,” Mohammad Huzaifa
Muluki, a 23-year-old student in Baghdad told FOX411. “I know it is
difficult to do, but we want to change the world and that song made us
realize we can. We can leave in a world with peace, without war, without
terror.”A lot of small steps, he said, can lead to big changes.The idea was initially sparked by a young student, Muna Abdel Halim,
who coordinated with Muluki and just three other friends from university
to quickly launch a humanitarian campaign of the same name – “I Was
Here.” Today it boasts an ever-growing list of more than 150 young
volunteers, all with a mission to provide services that will help those
in need.

“Every day we see and hear images and stories of pain and suffering
in our own neighborhoods and in countries far away. But we also find
acts of kindness, great and small,” he continued. “One day, one message,
one goal to inspire people in Iraq to do something good no matter how
big or small – for someone else.”

Over the last two years, the campaign has completed a number of different humanitarian tasks. It cleaned up and reopened the Mustansiriya Madrasah, the most famous historical school in Baghdad, established in 1233.The cleaning process took a full week of continuous work, following
which its members cleaned Mutanabi Street. They also collected food and
clothing and distributed them to needy people during the month of
Ramadan in a project they called "Ramadan basket.”As their number increased by the day, the volunteers
started dividing themselves into groups, each specializing in a
particular job. “There is a group dedicated to humanitarian work,
another to technical work and a third to works of service-related
nature, and so on,” Muluki said.

The song's lyrics include:I wanna leave my footprints on the sands of time
Know there was something that, meant something that I left behind
When I leave this world, I'll leave no regrets
Leave something to remember, so they won't forget

I was here
I lived, I loved
I was here
I did, I've done everything that I wanted
And it was more than I thought it would be
I will leave my mark so everyone will know
I was here

I want to say I lived each day, until I died
And know that I meant something in, somebody's life
The hearts I have touched, will be the proof that I leave
That I made a difference, and this world will see

I was here
I lived, I loved
I was here
I did, I've done everything that I wanted
And it was more than I thought it would be
I will leave my mark so everyone will know

"I Was Here" was written by songwriter Diane Warren who Tweeted today:

In tears reading how "I Was Here" has inspired a peace movement among
the youth of Iraq. This is truly the power of music. Humbled.

0 replies73 retweets89 favorites

Along with "I Was Here," Diane's written or co-written many other hits
such as DeBarge's "Rhythm of the Night," Patti Labelle's "If You Asked
Me To," Celine Dion's "Because You Loved Me," Starship's "Nothing's
Gonna Stop Us Now," Aerosmith's "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing," Roberta
Flack & Maxi Priest's "Set The Night To Music," Toni Braxton's
"Un-Break My Heart," Aretha Franklin & Whitney's Houston's "It
Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be," Heart's "Who Will You Run
To," Brandy's "Have You Ever?" and Cher's "You Haven't Seen The Last Of
Me," "Save Up All Your Tears," "Just Like Jesse James" and "If I Could
Turn Back Time."

Back to the never-ending bombing passed off as a 'plan,' any measure the
US was going to execute would only be 'stunning' for a brief time.

The White House spent far too much time -- wasted far too much time --
on the military response when at one point even Barack was saying that
the only answer for Iraq was a political solution.

But the US could hold a terrorism conference with defense ministers from around the world

Couldn't do the same for diplomats from various countries.

And the White House continued the militarization of the State Dept by
wasting various State officials on the task of talking this and that
country into joining the bombings.

They failed at the diplomacy and that's what the world will remember years from now.

Not the daily strikes the Pentagon's so damn proud of.

But the failure of someone who (wrongly) won the Nobel Peace Prize to use diplomacy.

It was a brief window of time, we noted that months ago. The hope that a
new prime minister might mean the government could be inclusive and
might stop the targeting of Sunnis.

It required some grand gestures.

We noted that as well.

Thug and thankfully former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki targeted Sunni
politicians. This included Vice President Tareq Ali who served from
2006 to 2014 -- the last two years in exile but he held the office --
despite the whoring lie of a whorish press (I'm referring to US and
European press) as they rushed to lap at the crotch of thug Nouri.

Jane Arraf hasn't said a peep about the Frontline special that aired this week.

Rather strange when you consider that the only time she's on TV is when PBS throws her a bone.

But she can't highlight that special, can she?

She whored for Saddam Hussein when he was prime minister (Jane was at CNN then) and she's whored for Nouri.

On Tuesday, Frontlineexposed Nouri as the thug we always noted he was.

Poor Jane. All those reports for PRI, Al Jazeera and the Christian Science Monitor.

Find where she's noting Nouri's crimes?

She was a good little whore for Nouri.

Nouri charged Tareq with crimes and demanded that the Baghdad court he controlled try Tareq.

Tareq was still Vice President. To stand trial, per the Iraqi
Constitution, Nouri had to wait until Tareq was out of office (he
resigned or his term expired) or else get the Parliament to strip Tareq
of his office and immunity. The Parliament refused to do that.

Before opening arguments, let alone before any evidence was introduced.

That's the sort of bias that forces functional judges to recuse themselves from a case.

But the trial proceeded.

Tareq's defense attorney wanted to call a character witness.

The judge refused.

The character witness?

Then-President of Iraq Jalal Talabani.

Who was prepared to testify.

The evidence presented was from tortured 'confessions.'

At least one of Tareq's bodyguards was tortured to death, beaten so badly that he died from kidney failure.

All of this calls for the verdict to a trial which never should have taken place (due to the immunity issue) to be set aside.

As the head of the government, Haider al-Abadi could make that call/recommendation.

He could also issue a pardon.

He's refused to do either.

All he's done is promise to end the bombing of residential neighborhoods in Falluja.

That was a good promise.

Starting in January of this year, Nouri began bombing the homes of
civilians in Falluja, a War Crime, legally defined as such, recognized
by the international community as such (the term is Collective
Punishment).

So, September 13th, when Haider promised to end the bombings, that was good.

Days later, as the bombings continued, it wasn't so good.

His only gesture -- not grand at all, just respecting international law
-- turned out to be hollow words as the bombings continued.

Haider's failed to call for the release from Iraqi prisons and jails all
people who have never had charges filed against them. (In Iraq -- and
they took this from the US government's actions when it directly
controlled Iraq -- if you can't arrest the person you have a warrant
for, arrest their spouse, or their parent, or their child, sibling,
grandparent, etc. These people, these Sunnis, remain behind bars
despite never being charged with any crime.)

The only gesture was that he would abide by international law and yet,
despite that promise, the bombing of Falluja residential neighborhoods
continues.